[time-nuts] Initial delay inPPS TI measurements

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Sun Feb 15 16:28:18 EST 2015


jra at febo.com said:
> For each reading I clear the counter, then poll using SRQ until data is
> ready.  The measurement cycle seems to always take between 1.5 and 2
> seconds, even if the start/stop signals arrive almost immediately.  The GPIB
> timeouts are short enough that I don't think they are causing the delay.   

I've seen something similar.  It may be a delay built into the 5334 before it 
starts running a command.  That might make sense if you wanted to send 
another command to modify the setup.


-- 
These are my opinions.  I hate spam.





More information about the time-nuts mailing list